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What Went Wrong With the Evangelization Effort

Of the Roman
Catholic Church?

As the world careens into a hell-like state, many upright and
honest
people ask themselves:

"What went wrong with the Roman Catholic Church?"

As their hope for a bright future dims to a flicker, many fine young
men
and women tell themselves:

"If this is what the Roman Catholic Church
has
delivered the world into, we do not want any part of it!"

As the suffering of the poor and oppressed multiplies under the alleged
spiritual leadership of Rome, they ask themselves:

"Is this what Jesus Christ promised us? Are these
the
fabled 'Good News'?"

Therefore, each one of us must ask ourselves in earnest:

"What has
really happened?"

The Answer

The answer to such question may be found in an anecdote which,
even
if it did not take place, its essence has the ring of truth:

While Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226) was trying to secure the
approval
of Pope Innocent III (1198 - 1216) for his apostolate of poverty to
"Repair
My Church" as Jesus had asked Francis to do, the following scenario is
claimed
to have taken place:

After showing Francis the riches amassed by the Church, Pope
Innocent
III said: "You see, the Church can no longer say: 'Gold and silver
have
I none'"[Acts 3:6]

To what Francis replied: "True, and neither can she any
longer say:
'...rise and walk.'"[Acts 3:6]

A Commentary

This anecdote is very significant because never before had
the
Church founded by Jesus Christ had gained so much influence and power
over
the world. Not only were Christians no longer hated, hunted, crucified,
fed to the lions, boiled in oil and whatever else the Romans rulers
could
think of as when the Church was in its infancy, the Church had become a
world power.

Kings paid tribute to the Pope and treated the Church as the
manifested
Divine Will of God. The Church had become an earthly empire on its own
right.

This power, however, did not come without a very high price, as
Francis
pointed out to Pope Innocent
III.

We have precious few Christians walking around performing miracles
in
the Name of Jesus the Nazorean such as making the lame walk or the
blind
to see, as it was recorded many times in the New Testament.

The Holy Spirit has become more of a myth or a superstition, and
miracles
become more of a "...yes, they can happen... But only in very rare
circumstances."
situation.

Francis of Assisi days were indeed the greatest of times for the
Church as an organization
but... for real Christians who actually sought a relationship with God,
the Church had become dead - devoid of its Spirit... And God had
somehow
become an insignificant part of it.

In Conclusion

Did not Jesus say:

"Amen, amen, I say to
you, whoever
believes in Me will do the works that I do, and will do greater
ones than these because I am going to the Father"[John
14:12]

So there you have it, dearest sisters and brothers - either:

(a) Jesus did not tell us the truth; or

(b) The Sacred Scriptures are wrong; or

(c) The above anecdote truly illustrates what has
happened.

The choice is yours, but be very careful and not make the same
mistake
Peter made. [Luke 22:34]

Document Originally
Published
on September 26, 2003 - On the Eastern
Catholic Church Memorial of the Death of John the Evangelist

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